Oracle Announces Availability of Oracle Big Data Appliance

New Engineered System and Oracle Big Data Connectors Help Unlock the Value of Enterprise Big Data

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. - January 10, 2012

News Facts

Oracle today announced the availability of Oracle Big Data Appliance to help customers derive maximum business value from Big Data.

Oracle Big Data Appliance is an engineered system of hardware and software that incorporates Cloudera’s Distribution Including Apache Hadoop with Cloudera Manager, plus an open source distribution of R.

Also included is Cloudera Manager, the industry’s first end-to-end management application for Apache Hadoop.

Previously released, Oracle NoSQL Database is a distributed key-value database designed to manage massive amounts of data. It scales horizontally to hundreds of nodes with high availability. It delivers predictable levels of throughput and latency, while requiring minimal administration. Oracle Big Data Appliance can run both Oracle NoSQL Database Community and Enterprise Editions.

Oracle Big Data Appliance is architected to help customers:

Rapidly provision a highly-available and scalable system for managing massive amounts of data;

Deliver a high performance platform for organizing, processing and analyzing Big Data in Hadoop and using R on raw data sources; and,

Control IT costs by pre-integrating all hardware and software components into a single Big Data solution that complements enterprise data warehouses.

Optimizing Big Data Integration with Enterprise Data Warehouses

Oracle Big Data Connectors software is available for use with both Oracle Big Data Appliance and other Apache Hadoop-based systems. The bundle includes:

About Oracle

Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center. For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL), visit http://www.oracle.com.

Trademarks

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Cloudera, Cloudera CDH, and Cloudera Manager are registered and unregistered trademarks of Cloudera, Inc. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.